The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-14
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TEE entr'acte cane is q Partisan novelty lately
brought over. The usual silver handle is re-
movable, like the business end Of a stylograpfh,
and the cane may be entlresy 1tIIcu Win HOuIlSA-
ment, according TO TASTE
STREET LIGHTS have just been introduced into
a certain wild Western town, and the man who
has the contract for putting them out rides on
horseback at full speed thaough the streets ana
extinguishes them with his revolver.
A BIRa1NGAAa Comm electrician has new
rat trap lie has mounted piece of meat on
one pole of O dynamo machine, which can only
be reached by the rat by standing on plate
which serves as the other pole. No rat has yet
got the meat but the inventor has collection
of dead rats.
A CHICAGO MAN entering e drug store in that
city recently asked to have small scalp wound
dressed. He stated that he was crossing a rail-
road bridge when he was overtaken by train.
He laid down on the ties and the train passed
over him, doing him no harm with the eXcep-
ton of the wound on his head.
MASSACHUSETTS, legislators are to be made
witnesses in a suit for violation of the prohibi-
tory law in Worcester. Among the items of the
bill for their entertainment during legislative
iunket thither presented by the landlord of the
hotel are several items for liquors and the Pro
hibitionists are consequently attacking the hotel
keeper
WILLIAM HARDING, of New Haven, who died
on the day set for his marriage, had premo-
milton that he should die on that day. but as the
hour for the ceremony approached he seemed
much better, and his friends hoped for favor
able turn of his disease. He was propped up IN
bed, and made the responses in firm voice.
AS soon as it was over he sank back, became
unconscious, and within two hours he was dead
A NEW and extraordinarily fine variety of as
paragus has just been discovered on the steppes
of Akhal- Telliz, recently annexed by Russia.
Though growing perfectly Wild it attains size
unknown in civilized countries. The stalks are
said to be nearly as thick as a mans arm, and
they grow to a height of five or six feet. This
asparagus is tender and delicious in flavor. One
stalk will supply ten Russian soldiers with all
they can eat
AT last the foundations of NJ Eiffel's Tower
of Babel, which has SO outraged the artistic
feelings of the painters and architects of Paris
have been laid NJ Eiffel laughs at the idea that
his worlzmen will be unable owing to giddiness
to go on with their toll when the iron building
rises to a great height They will have planks
about so feet wide to walk upon, and will thus
be as secure as if on terra firIna.
A JAMAICA CORRESPONDENT who has a turn"
for inquiring into matters that do not as rule,
attract the attention of ordinary mortals, says
he has discovered that. while all classes of the
community of Kingston are well represented in
are very few, if any, cigarmakers. He wants to
know whether there may not be some principle
in the odor of tobacco that, constantly inhaled
into the system, acts as disiptectant or pre-
ventive
A JAPANESE resident OF Burlington, VT, writes
to the Free Press of that city that two American
teachers-Mrs True and Miss Milliken-are
teaching English very successfully in a school at
Toxic; that almost all people in Japan learn
the English language and nearly all the school
girls comb their hair in foreign fashion and
have begun to dress in American style, with the
exception of the corset and the high bonnet.
Christianity and women in Japan are daily gain
ing strength, like the rays of the rising sun"
Mr.. TRoTrER, of Charlotte, n. c., reports a
case of a cat adopting young rabbits, and caring
for them as her own offspring. Mr. Trotter's
little boy found nest of young rabbits in the
garden and carried them into the house, when
they were taken in care by a cat which had lost
her kittens the day before. This motherly
feline nursed and nurtured the young rabbits
with as much care as she had bestowed upon
her own Kittens and they seemed entirely at
ease under the care of the foster mother. I'm
fortunately, however, another cat about the
house found the young rabbits and killed them.
The walls of the mamma cat were touching for
several days after the loss of her adopted
family.
TIE Oldest Mason has been started on his
travels again. Somebody ventured to assert re.
Gently JlldJ u l. D. AIlcu NuOSc IcCOTO UdUcS
from 1919, has the honor but correspondent
writing to the World from Skaneateles, N. Y,
says: There is in this village Dir. Ezra D.
Stiles, now living, who can boast of TWO years
longer Masonic honors. Mr., or, as we call him,
Brother Stiles was made Mason in September,
1917, in lodge held in Augusta Oneida county, N.
| Y, and in the following winter joined the Chap
| ter of Royal Arch Masons in New Hartford,
| same county, so you see Brother Stiles has been
a Mason nearly seventy years, i. e., September
| next. Brother Stiles was 81 years old March II
last is still in good health has all his faculties
| and, to all appearances will live to see his CEN
| tennial.
RECENT EVENTS on the frontier of France ard
| Germany have called forth great displays Of
| patriotism from all sorts of places and people
| One Of the most effervescent of the patriots is
| little Nine. Theo the popular singer, who de-
| lights the audience of a boulevard theatre by
appearing on the stage in a costume which is
as near an approach TO the primitive simplicity
| of Eden as could be designed by a theatrical
| costumer Theo was engaged by Dutch i'm
| impresario, Herr Schurmann, to shed a little
| boulevard radiancy on the benighted inhabt-
| tants of some of the European capitals Ber-
| lin was one of the first places mentioned by the
| impresario, but the idea of playing before her
| country'S enemies threw her into partial hys-
terics and sac vowed that she would never
| agree to sing and smile before a Teutonic audi
| ence. Herr Schurmann found himself accord.
| ingly in quandry, from which he has escaped,
however by proposal to take the lady to sun
| Teutonic Kaiserstadt.
| SNAKE CHARMING, as it is styled, is not a par
! ticulary difficult thing to learn, an expert hes
been telling reporter, in connection with lis
| methods of teaching others to do the act that
| brings down the circus. He said: ''First teach
| them all about the life and habits of the snakes
| There is great deal in knowing the nature of
| snakes, particularly the position they get in
| when they are about to strike. After they
| strike once they never get over it. When they
| once bite you they will try to do it again every
| chance they get. No we don't give them any
| drug nor rub them quiet beforehand as many
| people suppose. All that is necessary
| is to show them that you are not
| afraid of them So, after the woman gets con-
| fidence in her work she can get along all right
| get the snake teach them with under control
and then allow the woman to begin to handle t.
| You see snakes have brains as well as other ami.
| mails They never close their eyes, and watch
| all the time. After ] put the snake in The
womans hand, then point out what positions
| the snake must be in and what positions the
woman must be in to lift and handle it, Why.
| If you know how when a snake is even in a
| striking attitude you can lift it up and not be
bitten"
THE NAVAL REVIEW, July 90, in honor Of Queen
Victoria's birthday, is to be the most imposing
ever SEEN The commander in chief, Admiral
| Sir George Willes, is, with other naval officers
| busly engaged in arranging the details of the